PS Vita firmware 3.65 released – blocks ARK, but VHBL and custom themes still work
PS Vita Firmware 3.65 is making its way to the regular update channels. It is unclear at this point what the firmware changes.
PS Vita 3.65 firmware patches ARK ePSP Custom Firmware
Team molecule recently released a way to access the PSN from HENkaku enabled consoles, running on firmware 3.60. It was revealed that Team molecule were able to get access to the 3.63 passphrase, and with it, a HENKaku 3.60 console could act as a 3.63 to get access to the PSN and other Sony service.
It wouldn’t be surprising if PS Vita firmware 3.65 changes the passphrase, meaning HENkaku users will most likely lose PSN access once again. The question will then be to see if Team molecule can reproduce their stunt an give back PSN access, for example if Sony only changed the passphrase, or if the update is deeper than that.
All of the above is just speculation at the moment, as nothing has been confirmed on the scene side, and the official PS Vita 3.65 changelog still needs to be disclosed by Sony.
It goes without saying, however, that if you’re on firmware 3.60, you shouldn’t update if you want to keep homebrew access via HENkaku. People on firmware 3.63 who have access to ARK or VHBL should also avoid any update.
Update: multiple people have confirmed that firmware 3.65 patches ARK (ePSP Custom Firmware which you can use on firmware 3.63), and this was confirmed by hackinformer as well, but VHBL still works. Specifically, hackinformer say:
There is some good news… it seems that just like before Sony left the VHBL, Emulator bubbles, Custom Themes, and the PSTV Whitelist hax ver:2 alone because they are all still working just fine on FW 3.65 but the sad news is Ark does not work on FW3.65.
People running HENkaku on firmware 3.60 who want to keep using PSN Spoofing need to change “3.63” to “3.65” in molecularShell settings, according to Yifanlu.
Source: PSVFWBot




Looks like I can still access PSN with my 3.60 henkaku vita, JP region.
Yep,you can still connect to PSN after a new update for a week or two.
Just wait,sony will eventually close the hole again.
Good thing I downloaded the game I bought from the sale already.
Just got the update notification.
https://plus.google.com/109135813569598536112/posts/TVKmJJekTAa
still can acess psn here, Brazil.
ARK-2 has been killed on 3.65, it boots up to a red screen then closes. I didn’t have VHBL so I couldn’t test but I imagine it suffers the same fate.
VHBL doesnt require a kernel exploit, and the PBOOT bubble VHBL has survived all updates so far.
I wouldnt say that VHBL should be fixed, just because ARK/eCFW has been fixed.
Thanks for confirming that ARK (the latest kxploit it uses) has been blocked, though.
u still here?
I told you once and I won’t tell you twice…
nobody wants to see you here man..
New Update,Endless Game Downloads.lolol as ifSony give its customers Anything,Free.When we pay Top Dollar for a Mediocre Service
PSN still on 3.60 henkaku / Canada
+1 for this update breaking ARK. I even tried copying my bubble via QCMA to my vita and trying that but same result. ARK says “Loading”, screen goes red and it crashes. I’m assuming that means the payload failed to deploy which basically means yes they have patched out ARK.
Will it be possible to spoof PSN on 3.63?
to acess psn NO, but to do not update, yeah.
Are you sure?
Change DSN to Henkaku DNS ( 212.47.229.76 )
I wish Sony would work on a new handheld console and actually put work into instead of this mockery, listen up here you Sony, hackers support PS Vita better than you ever can and will always have the last word in this.
It will only go downhill from here on, just look at the 3DS.
Give up now Sony and go put your time into something useful. The PS Vita is gone, you lost it. Try harder next time.
True, the PS Vita doesn’t have much use at all beside of hacks. But the 3DS does, which is why Nintendo fights for the 3DS.
They are not fighting for vita anymore, why keep doing this beep
I think they saw that Henkaku users can now spoof access to PSN which they basically did not want. Also, 3.63 can use ARK which means free PSP games on a unhacked Vita. Sony still sells PSP games on PSN mind you. Which means that they have a valid reason to patch things out. Also, allowing to use emulators without actually jailbreaking the Vita (on 3.63) could invite lawsuits as well. That is equal to Apple selling emulators on their app store.
sad but true. even tougher to buy physical copies of games i’m interested cause of inflated prices(including on memory cards with prices going up and down). i understand the store is still live on the vita. but sony abandoned it and hackers have kept it alive. sparks interest in it’s users. they should be grateful people are still interested in it
VHBL stil works on 3.65….
how do u install vhbl on 3.65?
***, ARK2 really doesn’t work?
I had bought a Vita game a few days ago, but wasn’t able to download it. I was hoping to play it sometime next week… I’d love to play it but I don’t want to lose access to ARK2. Is this going to be fixable?
HENkaku change spoof to 3.65 if you want to download from PSN store or downloads error out.
YOU CAN SPOOF 3.65 ON 3.63!
JUST USE HENKAKU DNS!
SET PRIMARY DNS TO 212.47.229.76
AND SECONDARY DNS TO 8.8.8.8
Im new to this and im on 3.63 and want to download a game from PSN will this “spoof” help?
Holy freacking dead cute girls! Thanks!
This is not “spoofing”
PSN works for like a week or two after the update,then sony closes it for past firmwares.
Don’t get too excited then.
EDIT:This happened with 3.63 too….but apparently everyone forgot about it,and people think that they’re spoofing anything when they aren’t.
I’m on 3.60 spoofing 3.65 with molecular shell but neither using the psn spoofing option neither changing DNS works, I still get that damn “you need to update” message.
I got it to work on day 1 of the spoofing release, but didn’t work anymore since then.
How do you get trough it ? Rebooting device till it works ? Or is it something else ?
(also to mention ; I’m not banned, could access store yesterday via pc)
nvm did a proper (tai)Henkaku reinstall (pressing R) and it’s ok
But I thought Henkaku doesn’t run on 3.63. So what do you mean by “use hrnkaku DNS”?
Could you please clarify?
But I thought Henkaku doesn’t run on 3.63. So what do you mean by “use hrnkaku DNS"?
Could you please clarify
Doesnt work. Still being told i got to update
Damn. I hope we (on 3.63) will have something exciting from the scene soon to counter the bad news.
Not sure why you had your hopes up. No one is actually working on a 3.63 exploit. They have said that they would rather work on the already existing exploit and make it better (better homebrew apps, games, emulators, etc) than work on new exploits. I think it makes sense. My only gripe is that ARK no longer works. Which means I can no longer play emulators on my Vita 🙁 I will have to update sometimes because I have some PSN games that I would have to download in the future. I will try holding out as much as I can though.
You’re right. I just wanted to hope just a little longer and I also remember people saying an exploit may be disclosed after Sony patch it in the next update.. I’ll also hold out updating as much as I can and as one commenter below said we can download our vita games from psn through our ps3. I’ll try that once I am back home and back them up on my pc for easy access. This will work of course if my vita doesn’t pop up the sign in screen in the process. Also I still have my psp 2k and ppsspp and a big library of bought vita games so updating the firmware will be ok for me in a few months I guess.
well i can always download ps plus games on my ps3 and transfer it to my vita because that’s basically how i use psn on vita
If we make vita think its on lower firmware than 3.60 (or the .pup file on highter ver.) will be possible to “Downgrade upgrade"?
If it was that easy then I’m sure they would have thought of it a long time ago. Its probably the first idea that came into their minds. That idea is pretty much common sense.
Does this cat and mouse game really impress Sony’s investors that much or is there another reason Sony keeps trying to beat the hackers? I guess there’s social reasons of trying to get their player base to constantly fear the “evil hackers” and their piracy allowing boogeyman, but this is just getting stupid. Just embrace an open platform already Sony…
Wow. I bought a PS TV last week, downloaded all my games and ripped them with Maidump, thank god I backed them all up before this happened!
I had a feeling this was gonna happen when people were getting IP bans.
They remember that Vita exist!!!
Apa yang terjadi dengan vita ini?? Apakah kita tidak dapat akses bermain??? Jika harga kartu memori lebih baik diturunkan untuk kami mampu membelinya
You people are the reason why Sony puts so many annoying restrictions on their consoles, thanks…
Gives the Vita coders something to do, I guess. I can’t remember the last update the Vita had that wasn’t specifically for hackers and wasn’t removing app support.
Does anybody know how I can connect to PSN without updating from 3.63 to 3.65? I don’t want to lose ARK-2, but I want to play Helldivers with my friends again.
So you say VHBL still works. WHERE IS VHBL for 3.6*?
I cant find anything for 3.6* other than ARK so where is the instructions for VHBL?
What game?
Where are the VHBL files?
Would be really nice if we could get a link and a name of a game.
I’m still on 3.63 with ARK but need to upgrade to 3.65 but need to get VHBL working first as I currently have FTP access to make things a little easier for me.
And BTW, WHY are $ony so interested in blocking ARK and the Vita? I thought they no longer cared for it? They are releasing no games so why are they even bothering with it?
The WiiU is dead and its not getting anything from NintenDOH so as the Vita is also dead why dont $ony just leave it alone and put their attention to the Vita 2 which is due out later in the year?
Haven’t they learned by now that homebrew will ALWAYS be here. The PSP was full of homebrew from the start of its life, the Vita was pretty much the same. Time to let go $ony. Either leave it alone or bring life back to it.
I still think the Vita is the Switch killer. Its always been better than the 3DS and I still think its better than the Switch but $ony are too stupid to do anything about it. When they release a firmware just to block ARK it proves they are a-holes, nothing more.
Exactally. Leave us to hack our machines thanks.
Just tried out Vita Update Blocker v1.2. It works on OFW 3.63. You can still stream video and play games online and download things from PSN without updating!.
If you want to spoof on 3.63 change DNS to Henkaku DNS ( 212.47.229.76 )
Make a ark for psvita 3.65
can I still get VBHL on my updated 3.65 psvita firmware.
Will any alternative software developer
Do you think there will there be a hack for this patch eventually? I didn’t know about this and got my vita yesterday. When it prompted me with 3.65 I was stupid and installed it. Kill me.
I was somehow deactivated on my psvita!!! *** it told me to update in order to activate my vita and relink ps4 didnt work at all
I’m on 3.63 and I want to transfer a PSP game over to my vita, but it keeps telling me that I need to update before I can do that.
Is there a work around or am I not able to work around this until a new ARK comes out?
Actually, the latest update to QCMA fixes this problem.
Wait, you’re not using VitaFTP through ARK itself? That’s how I transfer PSP games.
Will we be seeing a tutorial on how to install vhbl on 3.65?
Henkaku DNS is working in 3.63
Any solution i need tranfer data pc to vita and vita need update to 3.65 to work
???
I’m having the same problem, I can’t install ARK in my vita 3.63 because whenever I’m connecting it to pc it’s asking for software update
Uninstall QCMA from your PC. Also make sure you don’t have sony’s content center manager installed. Reboot your pc and reboot your vita and reinstall only QCMA (do not install content center manager). And make sure QCMA says “offline” in the settings. Try again.
Actualy ARK runs on 3.65. If anyone wants to test just copy the ark savedata to the vita, then launch VHBL and browse to the ARK save and launch it, unfortunetly i didnt had any success launching games but ark does launch trough VHBL.
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